Jen Wachter

March 24, 2012

Custom Post Type Tag Cloud WordPress plugin

Custom Post Type Tag Cloud WordPress plugin

While messing around with custom posts in WordPress, I noticed that the standard Tag Cloud, Categories, and Archives widgets that come with WordPress do not support custom post types. I gave the plugin directory a quick search and found one plugin that enables monthly archives for custom post types, but there were no plugins for the other two. I installed the archives plugin, but it doesn't work how I want. To remedy the situation, I...

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March 16, 2012

Teasers by Category WordPress plugin

Teasers by Category WordPress plugin

Originally developed for the University of Maryland's WordPress theme, the "Teasers by Category" plugin has been adapted to be useful on any website. Essentially, the widget pulls and displays teasers of a specific query of posts according to the options selected in the widget.

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February 27, 2012

Upon submit of form with file upload, PHP reloads form, loses data

I have created my share of forms that contain an element that allows the user to upload a file; however, the issue I ran into today was something I had yet to come across. In hindsight though, I am not really sure why I never came across this problem. I was in the process of testing the file upload error handling by trying to upload a file that was larger than my 8MB limit, when...

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February 17, 2012

WordPress Multisite with subdomains on localhost

I cannot remember exactly why this was necessary, but on my development server at work, I needed to setup WordPress multisite using subdomains and it took me a while to figure it all out. I've compiled this step-by-step guide so I will remember how to do this in the future and in hopes that it will help someone else. I should mention that I am on Mac OSX and these directions assume you already have...

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February 4, 2012

"Failed to Import Media" on WordPress import

In the process of setting up a development server, I needed to import the data from several live WordPress sites into the WP installation on the development server. So, of course I used WordPress's inherent export and import features. When I attempted to import the data into the development server, I kept getting errors when WordPress tried to import media. "Failed to Import Media" is all it said. Not very specific, I know. In order...

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